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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“I am large, I contain multitudes”

Photo of two books I’m currently reading: The Stand by Stephen King (paperback from 1980), and Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion.

Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Met a young artist who was selling his art at a flea market and I just HAD to buy one of his pieces! Support artists! And to add to the mix: had a lovely conversation with his parents on supporting creative kids and how important that is during this day and age. Keep it up! ✨🙌✨

Photo of a family (mother, father and young boy about 10 years old) at a flea market and I’m holding up a drawing of an apple with rays coming off of it that the young boy drew.

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Amid Amidi @amidamidi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Here's to a productive week!

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Today's a good time to reshare this thread. Fantastic whimsy - and I don't often use that term, but works perfectly here - from the brilliant Jim Flora. He's influenced oh, so many artists since he was rediscovered in the '90s. Enjoy! #wardsmorguefile

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Fun Hertz car rental ad from 1958 featuring the new 1959 Chevrolet with those magnificent tail fins they were so known for. Paper cut illustrations are a nice addition here, however there's no mention of who did them. #wardsmorguefile

Hertz car rental advertisement from 1958 featuring a huge blue 1959 Chevrolet with magnificent tail fins and a woman gesturing towards it. Above, there are paper cut illustrations of various people doing things like travel, vacations, shopping, etc.

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Modelsheet for Babe the Blue Ox from the Disney short PAUL BUNYAN, 1958. The designs look to be drawn by Tom Oreb. The linework and draftsmanship definitely has his styling. #wardsmorguefile

Drawings of Babe, the blue ox in various poses.

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

When one of your favorite musicians responds to a drawing you did of her album - Ani DiFranco 🤯😳 Her Dilate album from 1996 was mind blowing to me back then. Such an incredible piece of work!

Photo of a text exchange between Ani DiFranco and her guitar tech who just so happened to be taking my Drink & Draw class where we drew our favorite albums from our college years.

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I hosted a Drink & Draw at The Book Bird in Avondale Estates, here in Atlanta, GA last night and I had a blast. It was my first time doing this sort of thing and I totally want to do it again! We made one-page zines and yes, there was drinkin'!

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"No, I am not gaslighting you, you're just imagining things," says the gaslighting husband

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Honored to be a part of the Decatur Book Festival for the 2nd year in a row! Stay tuned for more details...

Promotional image for the Decatur (Georgia) Book Festival featuring me, Ward Jenkins on Saturday, Oct. 3rd.

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Great! Can't wait to overlook all of these being released and stumble on them while stream scrolling weeks later

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The incomparable Mary Blair. From The Up and Down Book, 1964. #wardsmorguefile

Beautiful two page spread from a children's book of a little blonde girl in a white hat looking up at a bird on the left page, and looking down at a worm on the right.

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Cook-booklet on yeast baking - from Fleischmann's Yeast, 1963. No mention of artist. This is from my own collection and the spot illustrations are very 60s, utilizing bold pink & orange and that nice thick black outline. #wardsmorguefile

Cover to a booklet on yeast baking and illustrated with a young woman in 60s fashion, pink and orange striped sleeveless top and bright orange hair.

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Atlanta area peeps: DRINK & DRAW at The Book Bird in Avondale Estates - hosted by me! 9/9 at 7pm. Gonna make a 1-page zine (or maybe more than one)! All skill levels, no judgment - bring your sense of creativity and I'll give out fun prompts for each page of your zine. Hope to see you there! ✨🍷✏️✨

Flyer for a Drink & Draw event with Ward Jenkins (me!) on September 9th at 7pm at the Book Bird in Avondale Estates, Atlanta, GA.

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The best Rocky Horror experience I ever had was in 1989 --me & couple of friends went to a showing at the Vogue Theater in Louisville, KY. It was insane. They opened w/ Tim Curry's "I Do The Rock" video (with all the locals singing out the words, of course)...1/2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXPC...

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Tim Curry Official Music Video - I Do The Rock

YouTube video by Tim Curry

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Plaza Atlanta @plazaatlanta.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Our hearts are broken. Tim Curry didn’t just play Dr. Frank-N-Furter, he built the home that we all gathered in and gave us permission to be ourselves. Atlanta Rocky family: don’t cry alone. Come home to the Plaza this Friday at 11 PM. Let's do the Time Warp & celebrate him together.

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Sanka coffee ads illustrated by John Falter, 1960. #wardsmorguefile

Illustrated ad for Sanka coffee featuring a blonde woman enjoying a massive cup of coffee.

Illustrated ad for Sanka coffee featuring a man in a suit enjoying a massive cup of coffee.

Illustrated ad for Sanka coffee featuring a brunette woman holding up a massive cup of coffee.

Illustrated ad for Sanka coffee featuring a brunette woman taking in the fragrance of a massive cup of coffee.

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Worth a repost! SO looking forward to the 3rd Dune later on this year. EXCITE 😬 #wardsmorguefile

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Always loved these covers. I did a 🧵on Dune covers here: bsky.app/profile/ward... #wardsmorguefile

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Ads for E.E. Tigert Limited, from the Toronto Art Directors Club Annual - art designed and Illustrated by "McLauchlan" - 1960 and 1965. #wardsmorguefile

Fun, stylized ad of an artist working at his drafting table and is on the phone.

Fun, stylized ad of a guy holding a huge T-Square ruler that incorporates the "T" for the name "Tigert", which is the name of the ad agency.

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Ad for The Cartoonists studio, Art Director & Studio News, Nov. 1953. Artist unknown. #wardsmorguefile

Black and white ad of a brushed line character brushing another character that's smiling at the artist.

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Saw this opening weekend with the accompanying Mickey short, The Prince and the Pauper (with the animated countdown!) and was so taken by the animation. This was the first Disney 2D feature to be entirely digitally painted for the characters.

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Andrea Brown Literary Agency @andreabrownlit.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

✨This week's New Book Tuesday is all about graphic novels! ✨ 🚀 SPACED OUT by Stuart Gibbs and Ward Jenkins 🔍 SPY GRANDMA by Celina Frenn and Lucas Elliott You won’t want to miss either of these thrilling graphic novels! Both available NOW wherever books are sold. 📚🥳

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The second installment of Stuart Gibbs’s Moon Base Alpha series has now landed in the glorious graphic novel format at any and all of your favorite book selling establishments - online, IRL, and anywhere in between. @simonkids.bsky.social

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 17/08/2026

Wind from the Sea Andrew Wyeth, 1947

lace curtains blowing in an open window, a view of a landscape outside.

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

To those tech ai slop merchants who are endlessly hawking their slop and thinking they’re part of the future: when you have an entire generation saying “that’s ai” as an insult, you’re not the future.

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

How 'bout a little sneaky peek at Spaced Out: the Graphic Novel, coming out next Tuesday, Aug. 18th? Yes, how 'bout it!

Screenshot of a page from a graphic novel, where two teenagers (twin boy and girl in blond hair) try to interrogate a younger boy (with locs in his hair) in the moon base bathroom.

Screenshot of a page from a graphic novel that's set on a moon base station. Our main character, Dash (a 13 year-old boy with locs for hair) tells a fellow scientist (who wears a tank top and has tattoos and a mohawk) he thinks he knows another way to find out what the antagonists, a Swedish billionaire family, are up to.

Screenshot of a page from a graphic novel where we see our two main characters, Dash and Kira, both 12-13 years-old, are driving on the surface of the moon in a small rover where they're suddenly having to navigate through a meteorite storm.

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The next graphic novel installment of Stuart Gibbs's Moon Base Alpha saga lifts off in one week! Illustrated by yours truly. 😊 This one was a whole lotta fun to draw! @simonkids.bsky.social #graphicnovel

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

You couldn’t have picked a more Portland way of sending off a mall in Portland

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

You know, animation in the 1940s was on a next-level tier. That decade showed incredible growth in the craft.

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Excited to email someone with my new updated email signature. This is what I added: *All email correspondence is WI - Ward Intelligence® - written completely by me, myself, and I - without the use of any artificial assistance.*

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Just wanted to share one of my favorite photos of one of my favorite artists, taken by another one of my favorite artists. This is Jim Flora, in glorious tweed - taken by his dear friend Gene Dietch in 1970. Style goals for me in my golden years. By the way, Jim is 56 here.

Photo of a man in his 50s, smiling gleefully with sandy brown hair that has grey streaks in it, with dark thick frames and a mustache, wearing a tweed jacket and brown tie, standing next to a barber pole. He's in front of a barber shop window.

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

My go-to whenever i see anything AI generated

Screenshot of State Farm commercial of when the wife grabs the phone from her husband, thinking he's talking to another woman on the phone and she says "She sounds hideous," and instead of that line, I changed it to her saying, "This looks hideous."

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I saw this with two friends of mine when it came out in the theaters and afterwards, one of them said, "Welp, that was a movie..."

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Original artwork for the cover to The Worlds of A.E. Van Vogt - by Bart Forbes, 1974. #wardsmorguefile

Painting for a sci-fi novel featuring a very trippy scene of a man with a metal/glass helmet and colors streaming from it, with an arm reaching out to a metal sphere just behind the man.

Close up of the man wearing the helmet with starry specks and color emanating out of his head.

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Ortho Garden Digest wraparound cover by Wyatt & Wallace, 1954. #wardsmorguefile

Illustrated cover to a Garden Digest with several people doing yardwor, and various yard activities, such as gardening, cutting grass, spraying trees, digging up things, all with a smiling sun watching overhead.

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Ads for Tanfastic IR-9 suntan lotion illustrated by John Larrecq, 1959. #wardsmorguefile

Illustrated ad for a suntan lotion with three sections: the top shows a tan man putting lotion on a fair woman; the middle section shows the woman getting tanner in multiple images showing the progress; and the bottom shows the product itself.

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Reprint? Nice! I remember some time ago someone had scanned the entire book and had it available as an interactive site where you could go through all the pages, including the incredible artwork. Not sure if it's around anymore. They might've used Flash at the time, so...yeah 🤷‍♂️

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Illustrations for ads by Ferguson Dewar, 1957. #wardsmorguefile

Illustration featuring a lot of people partying, listening to music, dancing and having drinks and food.

Illustration of a family backyard picnic and everyone is posing for a photograph.

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Prince’s b-sides from the 80s were unparalleled. Especially this one: youtu.be/8LZiauZXOE4?...

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17 Days (7" B-Side Edit) (2017 Remaster)

YouTube video by Prince - Topic

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Design Reviewed @designreviewed.com · 18/07/2026

Roland Calendar 1960, Roland Offprint, Offenbach, 1959. Illustrated by Klaus Winter + Helmut Bischoff designreviewed.com/the-illustra...

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This reminded me that Jack Kerouac was a construction worker on the Pentagon in 1942. (This photo was when he enlisted later that same year in the US Naval Reserve.)

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Always a good time to revisit this thread of 101 DALMATIANS background art. Enjoy. #wardsmorguefile

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

ATLANTA! This is not a drill! CATS DON'T DANCE playing at the Plaza August 1st and 2nd!

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Wake me when this whole ai fad is over *yawns*

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Absolutely love this United Nations Air Mail stamp design. Unknown designer. 1974. #wardsmorguefile

United Nations first class Air Mail stamp that has a cool design of a plane with various colorful wedge-like shapes coming off of it, like sound waves.

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Drew this in 2010. We were living in Portland, OR at the time. A lot of fixie talk.

Illustration of a blue bird made to look like a hipster, with black rim glasses, a cap, vintage shirt, skinny jeans and chuck taylors on. He says, "Where my fixie at?" Top right it says "Hipster Bird."

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